All the blueprints of what were to become the director's trademarks are present in this quiet contemplation about a small village in rural Turkey. It's a very beautiful film seen mainly through the eyes of children about a family that represents much of what happened in Turkey, it's history, culture and politics. As always with Nuri's films he explains this through long dialogues where the puzzle of the family dynamics are slowly but surely laid out.
Review of The Small Town
